Cp can't hardlink unqualified wildcard

cp -l * DIRECTORY

fails with error 'cp: target `file' is not a directory'

But the equivalent

cp -l ./* DIRECTORY

AND

cp -l PATH OF WORKING DIRECTORY/* DIRECTORY

both appear to work fine.


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